What problem does it solve? Investment research reports require consistent, evidence-backed analysis of market sentiment and macroeconomic conditions, but gathering news, analyst opinions, social sentiment, and macro indicators into a reproducible format is time-consuming and error-prone. ## Core Features & Use Cases - News & Sentiment Analysis: Organizes recent 1-3 month news, corporate announcements, analyst revisions, institutional flows, and social sentiment into structured tables with dates, sources, and sentiment ratings. - Macro & Policy Environment Analysis: Evaluates GDP, CPI/PPI, interest rates, FX, PMI, credit spreads, regulations, and demographic trends with explicit impact direction and importance ratings for the target company. - Evidence Ledger Emission: Appends every collected evidence item to a dual-format evidence ledger (Markdown table and JSONL) with role-prefixed IDs for auditability and cross-file consistency validation. - Use Case: When building an equity research report for a listed company, use this Skill to produce the Part X (news/sentiment) and Part XI (macro/policy) findings file that downstream synthesizer skills consume. ## Quick Start Analyze the news sentiment and macroeconomic environment for ticker AAPL and write the findings to the workspace macro_sentiment folder.